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Terrorist organizations

Groups considered by many to be terrorist and the countries where they are/were active. Defunct groups are marked in italics.

Islamist groups

Abu Sayyaf - Philippines
al-Qaida - international
Ansar al-Islam - Iraq
Armed Islamic Group - Algeria and Europe
Hamas - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
Harakut ul-Ansar (HUA) - Pakistan and Kashmir
Hizballah - Lebanon
Islamic Movement of Central Asia - Central Asia
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan
Jemaah Islamiyah - Southeast Asia
Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Egypt
Maktab al-Khidamar - Afghanistan
Muslim Brotherhood - international
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs - South Africa
Salafist Group for Call and Combat - Algeria

Front organizations

Non-Islamist Palestinian groups

Palestine Liberation Organization - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel (used the name Black September during the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre)
Abu Nidal Organization - international (used the name of Black September since 1974)
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP-Hawatmeh) - Syria/Lebanon/West Bank
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
PFLP-GC - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
The Popular Resistance Committees - Gaza Strip/Israel

Zionist terrorist groups

Irgun - British mandate of Palestine (some dispute the definition of the Irgun as a terrorist group due to its avoidance of civilian casualties)
Jewish Defense League - United States
Kach - Israel and United States
Stern gang - British mandate of Palestine

Groups in Northern Ireland

Republican

Loyalist

Other separatist and anti-imperialist groups

ETA (Basque Fatherland and Liberty) - Spain and southern France
Front de Libération du Quebec - Canada
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - Turkey
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - Sri Lanka
Los Macheteros - Puerto Rico
Mau Mau - Kenya
National Front for the Liberation of Corsica (FLNC) - France

Leftist groups

Action Directe - France
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) - Lebanon and Armenia
Chukaku-Ha - Japan
Japanese Red Army (Sekigun) - Japan
GRAPO - Spain
Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front - Chile
Montoneros - Argentina
National Liberation Army - ELN in Colombia
November 17 (17N) - Greece
Red Army Faction (popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang) - Germany
Red Brigades (Brigade Rosse) - Italy
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - Colombia
Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) - Peru
Symbionese Liberation Army - USA
Weathermen - USA

Neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups

Other terrorist groups

The Angry Brigade - United Kingdom (anarchists)
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda - Rwanda (Hutu emancipatory; possibly genocidal)
Aum Supreme Truth (Aum Shinrikyo) - Japan (homicidal religious cult)
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia - Columbia
Contras - Nicaragua (anti-communist)
Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood - Yugoslavia
Death squads - El Salvador (anti-communist)
Earth Liberation Front - USA (radical environmentalist) - avoids harming people or animals, but is considered by the FBI to be a terrorist group
EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kypriakou Agonistov) - Cyprus (anti-Turkish, pro-Enosis)
Interahamwe - Rwanda
Revolutionary United Front - Sierra Leonean rebels
Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the nation") - South Africa

See also

List of organizations
List of guerrilla movements
Foreign Terrorist Organizations designated by the United States Department of State

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